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MacGregor - 2008-05-21 12:04:26
So in two days you've covered two of my favorite English bands.. you going to go for the whole top five?????
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Paula - 2008-05-21 12:15:39
Is one of the other ones Sigue Sigue Sputnik?!
I dunno, I've been in a British state of mind these days.
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grigorss - 2008-05-21 12:57:53
I think it's just fine that you're in a "British state of mind"; but if you find yourself with the urge to write a blog-post about Marillion or Hawkwind, you might want to consult your local mental health professional.
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Paula - 2008-05-21 13:54:12
I like Hawkwind, at least their 1970-'75 tenure.
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MacGregor - 2008-05-21 14:09:28
Sigue sigue HAW!!! It's Kajagoogoo!!! Duh!
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Bob - 2008-05-21 16:14:25
Holy Scarf, Batman Theme (re: that video). Me, I'm kinda utilitarian with my "getting CDs that I have on vinyl" purchases these days, largely with "will it work at the skatepark?" in mind, (since that is where I do most of my listening to old stuff), and I can report that the ruinously non-albumized Jam box set, if selectively mixed and pared, gets no whining (though I'm sure the local teens can only relate to the sound, and not the content, of "Eton Rifles"!). And speaking of an -ish state of mind, your post the other day done gave courage to my ishy convictions, and I ordered a copy of "Antics in the Forbidden Zone", and ran "Dog Eat Dog/Los Rancheros/Goody 2 Shoes/Mambo Sun/Paper Sun/Damaged Goods" by the peanut gallery... and even that worked (maybe everyone is in a British state of mind?). But although the Jam box set can be salvaged by re-mixing it to album sequences or whatever, something I'd thoroughly recommend against when converting from vinyl is "The Essential Radio Birdman", which I just got intending to give to my nephew, but did not even. (Some of the songs are bad versions, and one's a lot better off getting "Radios Appear" and "Living Eyes" on CD.) (And don't nobody buy that "Radio Birdman" is a MISheard Iggy lyric, cuz the song it's from is very obviously a tribute [conscious-ly or otherwise] to Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me"). But back to Britannia....
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Paula - 2008-05-21 16:18:14
"will it work at the skatepark?"
That is the question I ask myself before I do anything, nowadays--with some surprising results!
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Bob - 2008-05-21 16:34:26
Hmmm, we wouldn't want to limit you as a musician....
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MacGregor - 2008-05-23 19:08:05
The Jam eluded me, except for a couple singles, until they managed to get Visas (due to political affiliations) to do a US tour and I ended up on the road crew. It was a very tense, and very intense few weeks, fraught with mountains of cocaine, speed and ill will. They HATED us and generally regarded us as apes and capitalists. It didn't dull my adulation and Paul Weller called me a (insert great grandfather of all horrid C words here). I met him again in the late 90s and laughed and told him he called me that... he laughed and told me that I must be one if I still remembered that.
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